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Accidental healing.

Chance and fate. · Lucky accidents. · Other lucky accidents. · Accidental healing. · view the constellation · filed as N640

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  • India Thompson-Balys.
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8 finer motifs beneath it
Patient laughs so at foolish diagnosis of sham physician that his abscess breaks and he gets well. She has been told to examine the floor around the patient's bed for signs of what he has been eating. She finds the patient surrounded with pillows: he has eaten too many pillows Insane man accidentally cured by blow on head Stinging of buttocks as cure for cough. Patient applies stinging medicine and makes himself sore. He represses his cough to keep from hurting his hindquarters and is finally cured Cure by fall which causes bleeding Lost memory recovered in battle Man thinks to end life by drinking poisonous water, but it cures him Thorn accidentally removed from cobra's throat by woman's finger. Grateful cobra King accidentally cured by doctor's ruse and excuses pretended inability to cure him

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